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short video clip - dr ardis. telling people to cut salt to lower BP is big fat lie causing the body more problems to sell more pills
What MD.s don't tell people is the number of different body type combinations there are or that MD s are just agents for big pharma. once a persons body is messed up by there "medications" it is sometimes a long and difficult road to recovery. when often the origonal problem is /was the shortage of a mineralHusband has to cut salt or he swells up like a balloon. It's not pretty, and happens fast. Even the IV bags in the hospital (saline) will do it.
I don't know anyone that is happy with BP meds
heredity has to do with body types ,,and or combinations of body types.Half true.
Heredity, and BMI (obesity), and stress are much bigger factors.
Salt-junkies that eat 2X-3X the normal amount of salt, can benefit from cutting back. True.
When I was a supervisor, our plant manager was thin as a rail and battled sky-high BP continuously. Stress.
If you are a 300lb woman with HBP, cutting out all salt won't make a dimes worth of difference. Obesity.
Many of my relatives that were skinny, fought HBP continuously. Heredity.
I fought HBP for decades when I worked. When I pulled the plug and retired, it vanished. Stress.
So he is correct, for the majority of HBP people, cutting salt intake will make little-no difference.
Just for some trivia, you do know that salt-substitute is radioactive, right?
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Agreed. Anyone making a claim that "lowering salt intake is a scam" is a complete idiot IMHO. I don't care what kind of degree credentials they have. Salt affects some people quite a bit. Others, not at all. Me, I can lap at the salt lick with the cows all day long and it won't affect me in the slightest (other than the slight off-taste due to all those cow tongues). But I have a friend who simply cannot keep his blood pressure stable if he eats a lot of salt. Going to a low sodium diet helped him massively. Not just with the high BP, but with his recently diagnosed CHF. He was able to get that so under control that they took him off of several of the meds they had recently prescribed for him. I was quite amazed. CHF is usually something you have to live with for the rest of your life. It can sometimes be controlled, effects of it lessened, and made relatively easy to live a long life with. But it is rarely reversible. In my friends case, his CHF reversed. If you look at his tests now, they do not suggest CHF. But since previously they did, that is all still watched closely by his doctors. What made the biggest difference for him was lowering his salt intake.My dr has put me on 2000mg or less of salt per day. I've dropped 15 lbs, which was mostly fluid. Feet and legs are no longer swollen. It does help some folks, others not at all.
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